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‘Hard-to-please planners make our homes special’

Builder Jim Wood, of Wood Group, likes to keep the neighbours happy when he puts up houses in the seaside town of Greystones — he’s one of them

Linda Daly

May 22 2016, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

Family fun: many home buyers are drawn to the lifestyle Greystones offersAlamy

Visit Greystones on any given Sunday morning and it’s likely to be thronged with happy diners sampling the delights of the local cafes. The cachet of the Co Wicklow town has been on the rise in recent years, helped by social media-friendly businesses, such as the Happy Pear. If the sun is shining, it’s also a pull for hikers doing the Bray to Greystones cliff walk, but the seaside town never seems quite as packed as neighbouring Bray.

Many home buyers are drawn to the lifestyle Greystones offers. They’re willing to make the 45-minute commute to the city during the week — if they’re not working from home — in return for access to trendy, picturesque Greystones at weekends. As a result, new home developments such as…

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